Dell latitute d600 will it run phoenix

[fiercebadger]

Morning guys,

I have just been offered a dell latitude d600, would it run phoenix, sorry for the vague question, but I know Jack5hit about computers.

Cheers.

[trillian]

It mainly depends on the graphics card. I think Phoenix is supposed to be able to run on ATI Radeon 9600 cards but I have only used Nvidea myself.

[callum]

I would give that laptop a miss. its quite old and probably would not run Phoenix at an accetable performance,.

[Jamin_00]

I have a lititude e5500 from work which is very high spec and run Phoenix on top settings no probs now it's set up properly.

[bolders]

Just purely using the specs that are issued by phoenix developers I would say no.

The phoenix site here specifies a minimum graphics memory of 128MB

Phoenix model flight simulator | Support

whereas this site

Dell Latitude D600 - Reviews, specs and technical details

and this site

Notebookcheck: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

indicate that the max allowable memory for the graphics chip in the notebook is 64Mb

Is this laptop being offered free. If you are looking at buying a PC what sort of budget do you have.
Do you have any monitors, plan on running from a TV, or have any other hardware that you can use.

If you have none of these then you may have to except the fact that if you want to run phoenix its going to cost you some money. However it is such a useful tool for learning to fly helis that I personally think that it should be associated as another heli cost.

Also are you determined to get a laptop or are you happy with a PC in a box.

Finally it would be good to get some feedback from others of what sort of performance they are getting from phoenix with their system. This would make it much easier to determine what spec is really needed. I know the requirements are not huge but I am unsure of of low the performance of the PC can go before phoenix plays like crap.

Usefull info would be

what CPU and graphics card are being used
what resolution the game is being played in and what FPS do you get.

Sorry dont mean to hi-jack the thread but this info would help in determining what sort of computer spec you need to run phoenix well.

[fiercebadger]

Hello,

Thanks for the response guys, very useful. A laptop would be preferable purely because of the size, but a desktop would also be good (I currently only have a netbook). The D600 was offered to me for £50, but as I only need it purely for Phoenix, if it wont run it there is not a lot of point.

Costs, I would like to try and keep them to a minimum as this hobby is expensive enough, but I accept that I will have to pay a few quid to run phoenix and accept it is a very useful tool that will save me money in the long run.

So basically if anyone has any computer to run phoenix on, please let me know and we can talk cash monies.

Cheers.

[fiercebadger]

Hopefully sorted, been offered this spec, I think this should do the job, but can someone who knows what they are talking about let me know please?

Intel Celeron M 1.5Ghz Processor, 1Gb DDR2 RAM - has loads of storage space with its 60Gb Hard Drive - and in addition it has DVD+/-RW, built in a/b/g WiFi, ATI 128Mb Graphics and a 15" LCD.

[callum]

Hopefully sorted, been offered this spec, I think this should do the job, but can someone who knows what they are talking about let me know please?

Intel Celeron M 1.5Ghz Processor, 1Gb DDR2 RAM - has loads of storage space with its 60Gb Hard Drive - and in addition it has DVD+/-RW, built in a/b/g WiFi, ATI 128Mb Graphics and a 15" LCD.

To be perfectly honest.. I dont think thats any better! Okay.. Marginally.

I shall look about for you, What is your overall price range your willing to pay? its going to be quite hard to find something that will run phoenix for Under £100

[fiercebadger]

Guys,

Would someone mind have a quick shifty on ebay and posting a link to a suitable laptop, I obviously have no idea what I am looking for unfortunately and dont want to buy something not suitable.

Cheers.

[fiercebadger]

Thank you, I owe you one. Would up to £200 do it?

[Photosbykev]

I've got Phoenix running on a Samsung NC10 netbook and it runs well. It runs even better on my main Quad desktop with a pair of Nvidia cards and 8gb of ram but for occasional use it's fine on the netbook.

[fiercebadger]

Thanks for the info mate, but I have tried it on my netbook, but it aint having it, hence why I am looking for a laptop.

Cheers.

[Photosbykev]

Thanks for the info mate, but I have tried it on my netbook, but it aint having it, hence why I am looking for a laptop.

Cheers.

if it's because the software says the resolution is too low just change it to 1024x768 and it works fine. You do have to pan vertically slightly to see all the display but as the bottom pixels are just grass it doesn't matter too much.

[fiercebadger]

It just wont run, says something about graphics card?

[Photosbykev]

It just wont run, says something about graphics card?

not a great deal you can do about that